Re: [PATCH v39 11/24] x86/sgx: Add SGX enclave driver

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 02:42:50PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 09:45:54AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 04:39:25PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause)
> > > 
> > > You use gpl-only header files in this file, so how in the world can it
> > > be bsd-3 licensed?
> > > 
> > > Please get your legal department to agree with this, after you explain
> > > to them how you are mixing gpl2-only code in with this file.
> > > 
> > > > +// Copyright(c) 2016-18 Intel Corporation.
> > > 
> > > Dates are hard to get right :(
> > 
> > As is comment formatting apparently.  Don't use // comments for anything
> > but the SPDX header, please.
> 
> I'll bring some context to this.
> 
> When I moved into using SPDX, I took the example from places where I saw
> also the copyright using "//". That's the reason for the choice.
> 
> I.e.
> 
> $ git grep "// Copyright" | wc -l
> 2123
> 
> I don't care, which one to use, just wondering is it done in the wrong
> way in all these sites?

Probably, but I know at least one subsystem requires their headers to be
in this manner.  There's no accounting for taste :)

thanks,

greg k-h